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The Evolution of Christmas with “A Christmas Tree” in Charles Dickens’ Household Words Magazine, 21 December 1850

by homesteadmuseum
Posted on December 21, 2021

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Happy #nationaltrailsday ! Here's a photo from 1906 featuring a man atop a mule while traveling Mt. Wilson. Do you have a local trail you love to walk?

Check out these then and now photos of our Mission Walkway. The top picture is from 1925 and features Thomas Temple!

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We're joining the Archive Babies hashtag today with a couple of photos from our collection!

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Being in CA, we often think that slavery didn’t happen here, but after an enlightening and thought-provoking afternoon with Dr. Kevin Waite @kevinwaite yesterday discussing his book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire all in attendance learned the true story. His book tackles the often untold history of how and why Southern slaveholders infiltrated the American West in the years leading up to the Civil War and how they kept a stranglehold there for decades to come.

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